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CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT The most politically activated demographic of the southern end of the Sutherland Shire have decided they might have had enough of their local member, according to the grapevine. This comes the Member For Hughes, Craig Kelly MP, continues to embarrass both the Liberal Party and his relatively safe Liberal electorate with Mullumbimby-style medical skeptic conspiracies. As the most powerful...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT The scales have tragically tipped in favour of the people as Redditors make history by actually achieving something this week. Over the last few days, Subreddit r/wallstreetbets managed to drive up the share price of US retail chain GameStop making big returns at the expense of billionaire hedge fund managers. One such hedge fund manager is Orville Van Dandleton...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT With January 26th now in his rearview, the head of the Federal Government's marketing department says he's keen to 'rip back in.' Speaking exclusively with The Betoota Advocate today, the Bloke-In-Chief explained that he can't wait to wheel out his favourite piece of policy once again. Sport. "Fuck, what a bloody song and dance Australia Day was this year,"...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT As was confirmed yesterday in Melbourne's CBD, the Australian White Supremacy that has masked itself as working class patriotism for the last decade has once again taken the hood off. A man dressed in a top emblazoned with 'Proud Boys' was briefly detained by Victorian police on Tuesday, after he clashed with those attending the Indigenous Rights march through...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact Betoota’s fourth favourite watering hole, The Seventh Giggling Cosmonaut (formerly known as the Imperial Hotel) has incorporated a unique feature into the newly-renovated front bar, which is designed to speed up drink transactions.  “I couldn’t figure out why the bar line was moving so slowly” said owner Ivan Farski. “I’d have three staff behind the bar and there...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | Local News | Contact Local quilting enthusiast Sue Gravoy turned 50 on Thursday and marked the occasion with the traditional Gen-X symbolic Facebook posting of a non-ironic Minion meme.   Daughter Melissa was there for the historic coming-of-age moment when Sue carefully selected the allegedly funny meme and posted it to her Facebook wall, spoiling everybody’s day.  “Gosh, this one just nails it...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT A Betoota Heights local is a little suspicious of what’s in this new jab, given the short time frame it has been created in. Rob Quinn says he’s ‘not like an anti-vaxxer’ or anything, but he’s seen what happened in ‘I Am Legend’ and reckons the hastily developed vaccine sounds ‘sketchy as fuck’ and he definitely won’t be...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The Prime Minister has continued to chase the sugar hit he gets from saying deliberately inflammatory things, and today trotted out the phrase 'sport and politics don't mix.' Like a shared Facebook account with an Australian flag filter, the Big Fella in Chief has sought to shut down the Australia Day debate he flared up by telling Cricket...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT Prime Minister Scott Morrison has today doubled down on his argument that the 26th of January is a day worth celebrating, by suggesting that every single person involved in the First Fleet was having a bad time. From the First Australians who were invaded, to the convicts who were sent here to build colonial infrastructure - all of...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT No way! How weird's that? Bit of pub trivia ammo for ya there; most other countries who were invaded actually don't choose to have a national day of celebration on the day they were invaded by a colonial superpower. Unlike Australia, plenty of countries that were invaded by powerful nations like England, France, Portugal, and Spain don't actually celebrate...